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" After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down yet breathing, his bowels taken out, and burnt before his face. His head was then struck off, and his body divided into four quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm... "
The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticism - Page 177
by Walter Scott - 1836
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 41

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 590 pages
...through the streets, to the foot of a high gallows, placed at the elms hi Smithfield. After beinjr hanged, but not to death, he was cut down yet breathing,...quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb...
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History of Scotland, Volume 1

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1828 - 480 pages
...tails of horses through the streets, to the foot of a high gallows, placed at the elms in Smithfield. l After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down...breathing, his bowels taken out, and burnt before his face.2 His head was then struck off, and his body divided into four quarters. His head was placed on...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 41

English literature - 1829 - 586 pages
...tails of horses through the streets, to the foot of a high gallows, placed at the elms in Smithfield. After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down...quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 4

1830 - 428 pages
...tails of horses through the streets, to the foot of a high gallows, placed at the elms in Smithfield. After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down...quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 4

English periodicals - 1830 - 430 pages
...tails of horses through the streets, to the foot of a high fallows, placed at the elms in SmilhfieM. After being. hanged, but not to death, he was cut down yet breathing, his bowel} taken out, and • burnt before his face. His head was then struck off, and his body divided...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 21

Walter Scott - English literature - 1836 - 500 pages
...slain and tortured tte liege subjects of his master the King. Wallace indignantly and truly repelled the charge of treason, as he never had sworn fealty...arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was «ent to Berwick, his right foot and limb to Perth, and his left quarter to Aberdeen. ' These,' says...
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Periodical Criticism, Volume 5

Walter Scott - 1836 - 420 pages
...tails of horses through the streets, to the foot of a high gallows, placed at the elms in Smithfield. After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down...quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb...
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Life of Kenble. Kelly's Reminiscences. Davy's Salmonia. ANcient history of ...

Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 446 pages
...tails of horses through the streets, to the foot of a high gallows, placed at the elms in Smithfield. After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down...quarters. His head was placed on a pole on London Bridge, his right arm above the bridge at Newcastle, his left arm was sent to Berwick, his right foot and limb...
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History of Scotland, Volume 1

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Scotland - 1841 - 424 pages
...tails of horses through the streets, to the foot of a high gallows, placed at the elms in Smithfield.^ After being hanged, but not to death, he was cut down...breathing, his bowels taken out, and burnt before his face.J His head was then struck off, and his body divided into four quarters. The head was placed on...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 19

1842 - 840 pages
...elms in Smithfield. After being hanged, but pot dead, he was cut down, yet breathing, his bowels torn out and burnt before his face; his head was then struck off, and his body divided into four quarters, one placed on London bridge, another at Newcastle, a third at Berwick, one limb at Perth, and the other...
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